Beacon Hill or maybe Charlestown again - hard to tell when you're up that close, although the unusual house one sees on the left will identify it for someone who knows Boston better than I - but I'm betting heavily on Beacon Hill

Charles River/The Esplanade (Hatch Shell)

Waterfront/Harbor Hotel/that thing that used to be an elevated highway

Tuesday the 3rd, bring your educated opinions to the public forum/town hall meeting with our latest fave liberal! City Councilmember Sawant wants to hear from you. At 7pm, you can chat with fellow concerned citizens at the All Pilgrims Christian Church on Broadway. She’ll be addressing the recent surge in hate crimes on the Hill …
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This came across my Facebook stream just now… What is doubly so dehumanizing about “people who look like that want people who look like that”: it not only denies the humanity of the person you are calling ugly, it is denying that humanity to the person you think is more beautiful than they are. But […] ...

Yoga for Increased Athletic Performance22 May 2015 | 2:00 - 4:00pm.Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco2201 Sutter StreetSan Francisco, CA 94115(415) 753-0909More info: iyisf.orgJoin IYISF Faculty Member Janet MacLeod for a two-hour benefit class open to all levels - even new students! Asanas which strengthen your legs and arms and open your hips and shoulders will be presented. Great class for athletes and nonathletes!Janet is teaching this yoga class to acknowledge the 18 year commitment of IYISF AS/TT alumni Tony Eason (2002) to AIDS/Lifecycle. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the AIDS LifeCycle Event in ...

Maggie, the personality probably most (and forever) associated with marriage inequality in this country, is now editing a political site with its eye on 2016
[Pulse2016]
This "Pulse 2016" site is a project of the American Principles Project, which is essentially a spinoff of NOM. APP was founded by Maggie's NOM cofounder, Robert George, and in addition to Maggie, it includes a number of NOM's behind-the-scenes players, like Luis Tellez and Sean Fieler, on its board.
This being the case, let me be the first to wish Maggie and her pals continued "success." Who knows what major rights and benefits they ...

The Alliance Defending Freedom, the pro-discrimination legal group at the forefront of most cases wherein an anti-gay–minded person cites his or her "religious freedom" as valid reason to ignore fairly enacted nondiscrimination polices that apply to LGBT people, has written yet another post on sexual orientation/gender identity (SOGI) laws. ADF sums up its position in the headline:
[ADF]
The "cannot coexist" line is used twice more in the post and its attached video. There is no discussion to be had; ADF simply insists that "SOGI laws threaten individuals and business-owners, both for-profit and nonprofit, who want to live and work ...

It’s a condition that blights the lives of possibly as many as four million Americans, but the medical community still knows relatively little about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and whether it is purely psychological or at its heart can be traced to a physical cause. Now, new research published in Science Advances, sees doctors identify key differences […]
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Disney execs are wet with joy after seeing these images of a weasel riding on a woodpecker pop us this week. Yes -- a real photo, taken by photographer Martin Le-May in a park in East London. More on the dynamic duo via Slate: The photographer, Martin Le-May, told me it began when he heard distress calls from the bird, a European green woodpecker, and turned to see it jumping up and down on the ground. These woodpeckers commonly feed on ground-dwelling ants, and the weasel must have initiated a sneak attack. Birds do what birds do, however, ...

Pop the champagne! [dlisted]
...and so did Rick from The Walking Dead! [ohlala]
Russell Tovey apologises for that mis-fired quote [towleroad]
Ryan Murphy talks about how GLEE changed the public opinion about gay people. SPOILER: Now all of America thinks we're out there in suspenders and polkadot bow-ties. [queerty]
Cinderella star Chris Madden talks having to hide his huge package onscreen for Disney [socialite life]
Ryan Phillippe on depression: 'It's been a huge obstacle for me since I was a child' [celebitchy]
That Kirk Cameron saves Christmas movie swept The Razzies this year [popbytes]
That "untouched" photo of Cindy ...

Wow. Now this is some pretty crazy stuff, even for heterosexual supremacists. A religious zealot has filed a proposed ballot measure called the "Sodomite Suppression Act" with the Attorney General of California that says "any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purpose of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or any other convenient method."Matt McLaughlin filed the measure and paid the $200 fee required to get the ballot measure in the system. He then has to collect the signatures of 5% of the votes cast for Governor ...

This is so fun: check out my brand new essay on erotica and dialogue over at the amazing WriteSex site.“Dialogue can be tricky—”“Whatcha mean ‘dialogue can be tricky’? It’s just people talking, right? How hard can it be?”“You’d be surprised. For instance, a lot of people think that dialogue should be … um … er … ah … accurate. But if you wrote down how people actually talk it’s kind of … muddled … youknowwhatImean?”“Okay, I getcha: you mean people should have distinctive voices, sound like human beings, but not cram those voices with the stuff real people ...

A sign outside of a Botswana junior high school (via Samantha Marx)
It’s hard to see a possible endpoint for the HIV epidemic — it continues spreading each day.
In 2010 (the last available year with a complete data set), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported an estimated 47,500 new infections in America. About two-thirds of those were in gay and bisexual men, with about 11,000 among white males and 10,000 among black ones.
About one in six people living with HIV don’t know they have it, leading the disease to spread further. And the number of ...

Two men who ran what was dubbed a “manliness” camp in South Africa have been convicted of murder, assault and child abuse after the horrendous death of an adolescent who was supposed to be in their care. The men, Alex de Koker and Michael Erasmus, ran the Echo Wild Game Rangers camp which purported to […]
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I'm pride to own this blog!Quotation from one of my favorite movies:"You feel that sting, big boy, huh? That's pride FUCKIN' with you! You gotta fight through that shit!"Butch to Marsellus Wallace in Pulp FictionSo is pride good or bad? Is there good and evil?I'll find out! ...